‘CNSNews’ Archives
2011 On Pace to Be Deadliest Year for Americans in Afghanistan War
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com With three months to go, 2011 already is the second deadliest year of the Afghanistan war. U.S. military fatalities so far this year (January through September) stand at 340 -- only 22 fewer than the 362 deaths that took place during the same period in 2010, which was the deadliest year so far for U.S. [...]
Commerce Secretary: ‘U.S. Can’t Afford’ Not to Subsidize Green Tech
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank said that in a global race for green technology, the United States “can’t afford” not to spend taxpayer money on such projects, and that the price of that spending is an occasional failure. One of those failures was a $535-million federal loan guarantee to the [...]
White House Calls for Release of Iranian Pastor Facing Execution for ‘Apostasy’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com The White House called on Iran Thursday to release a Christian pastor facing possible execution after refusing to renounce his faith. Christian organizations, human rights groups and governments fear that Youcef Nadarkhani may hanged in a matter of days. “The United States condemns the conviction of [...]
Stimulus Needed ‘Even if We’re Growing at 8%’ and Have ‘3% Unemployment’
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com Vice President Joe Biden said Congress should pass the $450-billion American Jobs Act even if the economy were growing at 8 percent and unemployment were as low as 3 percent. “Look, we should be doing all of this stuff even if we were growing by 8 percent, even if there was a 3 percent unemployment [...]
CAIR: ‘It’s Best To Release’ Christian Woman On Death Row in Pakistan
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Corey Sailor, said it would be best for Pakistan to release Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death by hanging for alleged blasphemy against Islam’s prophet Mohammed. Outside FBI headquarters in [...]
DOJ: ‘Mexican-Based Trafficking Organizations Control Access to the U.S.–Mexico Border’
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Mexican drug-trafficking organizations “control access to the U.S.-Mexico border” and the “smuggling routes across” it, “resulting in unprecedented levels of violence in Mexico” and allowing those drug trafficking organizations and their associates to “dominate the supply and wholesale [...]
Obama: ‘You Can’t Have a Modern Industrial Economy’ With Lower Taxes
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com If taxes consumed less of America's wealth, as some Republicans would like, it would not be possible to have a “modern industrial economy,” President Obama said during a town hall event in Mountain View, Calif. on Monday. A member of the audience asked whether he could pay more in taxes, adding [...]
Steve King on Planned Parenthood, Obamacare Funding: GOP House Will ‘Allow It to Happen’
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) is predicting that--despite his own and other conservatives' efforts to the contrary--this Republican-controlled House of Representatives will continue throughout its two-year tenure to allow funding for Planned Parenthood and the implementation of Obamacare. “They [...]
DNC Chair: U.S. Economy ‘No Longer Dropping Like A Rock’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chair of the Democratic National Committee, says the economy “has turned the corner,” but her counterpart at the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, says Americans are still hurting. Priebus said the bumper sticker for Democrats in 2012 should be, [...]
Obama Calls Himself ‘Warrior for the Middle Class’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama told Democratic donors that he doesn’t mind being accused of class warfare, even saying that he wears it as a “badge of honor.” He also said Republicans want to return to prosperity through “cheap labor and dirty air.” “Now, you’re already hearing the Republicans in [...]
Israel Once Again Accused of ‘Apartheid’ at U.N. Racism Meeting
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The U.N. on Thursday commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Durban anti-racism process, an enterprise that has been marked by years of acrimony over efforts to single out Israel as racist. More than a dozen Western democracies boycotted the event. Meeting on the sidelines of the General [...]
Stellar Cast of Critics Slam U.N. As Anti-American, Anti-Israel
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com On a day when U.N. member states met to endorse the controversial “Durban” declaration against racism and a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triggered yet another Western walkout, a conference near the U.N. headquarters in New York sent the world body a message – “not in our [...]
Turkey, Trying to Isolate Israel, Gets Cordial Treatment
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com As Turkey’s leaders intensify efforts to isolate Israel internationally, the cordial treatment they are receiving from the Obama administration this week will add to concerns some Americans have about the strength of its support for Israel. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as [...]
Okay to Be Openly Gay in U.S. Military
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Nine months after President Barack Obama signed a bill repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that said homosexuals could not openly serve in the U.S. military, the “gay ban” ended Tuesday at one minute after midnight. The first celebration took place in Vermont, where Navy Lt. Gary Ross [...]
Obama Predicts: His Plan Will Cost $235,263 Per Job
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama said at a fundraiser held in a private residence in Washington, D.C., on Thursday evening that the $447 billion American Jobs Act he has proposed will create 1.9 million American jobs—which works out to a cost of about $235,263 per job. “It’s estimated that the American [...]
Obama Invokes George Washington to Defend His Proposed Tax Hikes
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com The 44th president of the United States invoked the very first president on Monday, as Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes, mainly on wealthy Americans. “George Washington grappled with the problem” of taxes, Obama said. “He (George Washington) said, 'Towards the payment of debts, [...]
Pelosi: ‘We Need to Address Revenue’
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Suggesting that tax increases should be included in the legislation that will followup on the recommendations of the special super-committee set up by last month’s debt-limit law, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that Congress needs to “address revenue.” Pelosi was [...]
Administration’s List of Religious Freedom Violators Excludes Pakistan, 5 Others
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Almost 32 months after taking office, the Obama administration has for the first time designated “countries of particular concern” (CPCs) for religious persecution. But despite urging from religious freedom advocates, it did not add several countries accused of egregious violations. [...]
Democrat Congressmen Call for Unlimited Federal Debt; Say Limit is ‘Danger’ to Country
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com A trio of House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a bill to eliminate the debt ceiling so that the Treasury Department would be able to borrow money without limit. Rep. Jim Moran (D.-Va.), one of the co-sponsors of the proposal, said that imposing a legal limit on the national debt is a "danger" to [...]
White House Official Compares Illegal Immigration to Jaywalking
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Cecilia Munoz, the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, compared the federal crime of being in the country illegally to jaywalking. "If you were running the police department of any urban area in this country, you would spend more resources going after serious criminals than after [...]
Democrat Thanks Obama for Bypassing Congress on Immigration Reform
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) thanked President Obama for circumventing the Legislative branch when it comes to immigration law. Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code makes it a federal crime to be in the United States illegally. Nevertheless, the Obama administration in August directed federal immigration [...]
Oil Industry Could Generate Over 1 Million Jobs by 2030, Report Says
Liberty Alerts, Lucas Zellers, CNSNews.com The petroleum industry could generate 1 million jobs by 2018, and more than 1.4 million by 2030, if key U.S. regions are opened to development and regulatory burdens are lifted on current projects, according to a report issued by the American Petroleum Institute (API). The report, released last [...]
CBP Chief: Weaker U.S. Economy Is Strengthening Border Security
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Over the next year it will become apparent to the American people that a secure southwest border is possible, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Alan Bersin. “Our border with Mexico has been a project of a 20-year effort beginning in the early 1990s, and I think what [...]
DOE Backs $90.6 Million Loan to Build Solar Power Plant
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced last week that his agency has finalized a $90.6 million loan guarantee with Cogentrix of Alamosa, LLC for the construction of the Alamosa Solar Generating Project in south-central Colorado. DOE’s Sept. 9 press release said the money will “support the [...]
Marking 9/11, Israeli Leader Warns of ‘Ultimate Terrorist Nightmare’
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu marked the tenth anniversary of 9/11 by warning that the struggle against terrorism is "at its peak," with Islamic radicals set on achieving the "ultimate terrorist nightmare." "This struggle is not over," he said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday. "We [...]
Islamic Bloc Declines to Condemn All Terrorism
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com In a statement marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the bloc of Islamic states on Sunday reiterated a stance that has stymied efforts at the United Nations for well over a decade to develop a global convention against terrorism – the insistence that any definition of terrorism should make an [...]
Need Action, Not More Words, on Trade Agreements, Republican Leader Tells Obama
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Delays in passing three free-trade agreements negotiated by the Bush administration are putting 380,000 American jobs at risk, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says in a new ad campaign launched Thursday, hours before President Obama called – yet again – for movement on the trade deals. Hours [...]
U.S. Worried Terrorists May Get Libya’s Missing Surface-to-Air Missiles
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The U.S. government is concerned that al-Qaeda and other terrorists may take advantage of the disarray in Libya to acquire unsecured Gaddafi regime weaponry including surface-to-air missiles, President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser said Thursday. “We have indications that individuals of [...]
Bachmann Questions Obama’s Push to Spend on ‘Green’ Projects
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pointed to Solyndra, the bankrupt solar panel company that received $535 million from the federal stimulus act, as an example of President Barack Obama’s unsuccessful attempt to pick winners and losers in the economy. Solyndra had never shown a profit, yet it received [...]
Obama Suggests Republicans Want a ‘Race to the Bottom’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com While demanding bipartisan support for a $447-billion jobs bill, President Barack Obama questioned whether Republicans want a “race to the bottom” and would allow children to be exposed to mercury. “The people of this country work hard to meet their responsibilities. The question tonight is [...]
